Double-spoon pliers for surgical operations



Nov. 15, 1927.

K. ST|EGL .|TZ

DOUBLE SPOON PLIERS FOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS Patented Nov. 15, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.QOUBLE-SPOQN PLIERS FOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS.

Application filed May 5, 1927, Serial No. 189,019, and in Germany May25, 1926.

This invention relates to pliers intended for use in connection withcertain surgical operations, for instance, and chiefly, as regardsabortions, and its object is to prevent practically completely the doingof damage to the mucous membranes, the peritoneum, and the like. Forthis purpose one of the working legs of the pliers, that are providedwith the spoons that are directed towards one an other is elongated alittle and its spoon is cap-shaped at its free end and extends with thisend or cap over the free end of the other spoon. It is suited to thepurpose to give the longer leg convex shape on its outwardly directedsurface, as is the case in the constructional form shown. by Way ofexample on the accompanying drawing on which Figure 1 is a perspectiverepresentation of the pliers in closed state, and Figure 2 shows thesame pliers in open state.

This constructional form which is intended chiefly for abort-ionoperations has practically straight legs 1 and 2, but I wish it to beunderstood that these legs may also he more or less curved, just as mostsuited for one or the other case. The essential feature is this that theleg 2 is a little longer than the leg 1, and its spoon 4 has a cap likeextension. 5 directedtowards the endface 6 of the spoon 3 of the leg 1,and extending over this face 6, as shown especially in Fig. 1. Anotherfeature, although of secondary importance, but also very suited to thepurpose of the pliers is that the outer face of the cap-like extension 5is convex, as also distinctly shown in the figures of the drawing.

Owing to the above-described new configuration of the working members ofthe pliers, in the first place the members 4 and 5,

the mucous membranes, as well as the peritoneum, are very efiectivelyprevented from being damaged by the spoons when these are moved about inthe abdominal cavity. This is the object of the invention, as alreadystated, and it is fully attained by the new means designed therefor.

I claim:

Double-spoon pliers for surgical operatlons, comprising, in combinationwith the working legs of the pliers and the spoons, an elongation of oneof said legs and an extension of the spoon of the same, this exten sionbeing cap-shaped and having its convex surface directed outwardly, andbeing in the whole directed to the other spoon and extending over itwhen the pliers are in closed state, for the purpose set forth;

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature.

KONRAD STIEGLITZ.

